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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

The standard model of particle physics holds that gluons can attract each other and bind together to form an entirely new kind of particle โ€“ the glueball. However, such a particle had not been discovered in any previous experiments.

this is potentially big, actually.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

yeah a new particle discovery would be huge

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I still think dark matter is kipple.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe not impossible? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glueball#Mass_and_parity

Glueballs are predicted by quantum chromodynamics to be massive, despite the fact that gluons themselves have zero rest mass in the Standard Model.

These masses are on the same order of magnitude as the masses of many experimentally observed mesons and baryons, as well as to the masses of the tau lepton, charm quark, bottom quark, some hydrogen isotopes, and some helium isotopes.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 7 points 20 hours ago
[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks, the linked article is spectacularly useless.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it's from the full article. the site seems kind of bad, i can only read the full article from a phone.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Ah, I'll skip it then. Thanks.

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